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Portable smoker for the winter - possible?

So it happens that every year we hit the mountains with 5-6 friends for a couple of days to stay there, ski/snowboard and chill out in the evenings. From this latter activity, I heavily miss cooking in my Weber kettle.. but the Mastertouch ain't exactly portable and we can only approach that little house on the hill via ski chairlifts..

Thinking about this situation I think running a small smoker could be a better choice when it comes to feeding around 6 people with a smaller device. The question is, what cooker could be ideal for this purpose: being small, very portable, capable of cooking for around 6 and suitable for cooking outside at winter.

Is there maybe something like the Pit Barrel Cooker, just smaller? Or can one maybe smoke in a Jumbo Joe? Any other options which you'd suggest? Or is that idea completely crazy and we'd just better forget about it? What do you think?

Ok, looking at the pictures there's probably no point disassembling it for travel, looks like it won't take up less space at all. Judging just by looking at it though, it could possibly fit into a larger backpack as is.. right?

Kristof, yeah, they don't shrink much for travel! I have an 18", and built a crate to take it to away family reunions. The only thing I do to pack it is to flip the lid into the body of the WSM. It saves a few inches, uh, centimeters!

Yeah.. or we could possibly make the best shots in our lifetime with the smoker sitting beside us in the chairlift (probably in a nice winter hat) or standing between my legs on the snowboard on the slopes - this whole idea is too tempting to let it go easily